Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

Summary Tape File 2 (STF 2) files contain detailed
complete-count tabulations for all persons and housing units in the
United States. The STF 2B files provide summaries for states or state
equivalents, state components, standard consolidated statistical areas
(SCSAs) and the urban and rural portions of the SCSAs, standard
metropolitan statistical areas (SMSAs) and the urban and rural
portions of the SMSAs, urbanized areas, counties or county equivalents
and the rural portion of the counties, minor civil divisions or Census
county divisions, places of 1,000 people or more and the urban
portions of any places that have been split into urban and rural
components, American Indian reservations and their county portions,
and Alaska Native villages. Population (or demographic) and housing
items are contained in each type of file. The data are presented in
two types of records. The first, record A, is presented once for each
geographic area and summarizes total population and all housing
units. The second, record B, is presented for the total population in
each area and repeated for each race and Hispanic group in the area
that meets nonsuppression criteria. Record B is presented for a
maximum of 26 racial/Hispanic groups. If too few persons or housing
units fall into an ethnic category in a census area, the data for that
category are suppressed. There are 51 data files, one file for each
state and the District of Columbia.

Summary Tape File 2 (STF 2) files contain detailed
complete-count tabulations for all persons and housing units in the
United States. The STF 2B files provide summaries for states or state
equivalents, state components, standard consolidated statistical areas
(SCSAs) and the urban and rural portions of the SCSAs, standard
metropolitan statistical areas (SMSAs) and the urban and rural
portions of the SMSAs, urbanized areas, counties or county equivalents
and the rural portion of the counties, minor civil divisions or Census
county divisions, places of 1,000 people or more and the urban
portions of any places that have been split into urban and rural
components, American Indian reservations and their county portions,
and Alaska Native villages. Population (or demographic) and housing
items are contained in each type of file. The data are presented in
two types of records. The first, record A, is presented once for each
geographic area and summarizes total population and all housing
units. The second, record B, is presented for the total population in
each area and repeated for each race and Hispanic group in the area
that meets nonsuppression criteria. Record B is presented for a
maximum of 26 racial/Hispanic groups. If too few persons or housing
units fall into an ethnic category in a census area, the data for that
category are suppressed. There are 51 data files, one file for each
state and the District of Columbia.

Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [United States]: Summary Tape File 2B. ICPSR08037-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1982. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08037.v1